Help me with my new website!

[bennyboy]

No one is making it to Pacman with the site looking like that.

Now you are just exadurating. The Notepad++ site looks very similar, yet people download it.

Have you considered adding some blinking text? That would really help in keeping people's attention.

What exactly would you suggest?

Because it looks like something that would’ve been hosted on Geocities. You might be writing HTML5, but the design screams late 90s, with a table-based layout.

For a more realistic effect, you can run your browser in 256 colors!

I'm not sure what you are mad about.  The truth is obvious-- you're just in the very first baby steps of designing a site, and you have a lot (a lot!) of work to do.  Your site has way too much visual contrast, it has unnecessary and confusing animated visuals, it really does look like something I might have designed about 15 years ago when I was first learning HTML.

For a pretty good example of a well-designed site, I'd take this one.  It has a mostly plain background with a little bit of pizzazz (dotted stars for background, a beautiful planetary artworkfor visual interest, and a cool logo).  It has sufficient contrast to allow easy viewing, but not so much as to be annoying or distracting.

Go to literally ANY of the top 100 sites (google them), then go to your site.  Ask yourself-- what's the difference?

In my honest opinion, the design of this forum's desktop version is terrible. It's full of distractions and renders the forum almost useless on slower connections. That's why I am using the mobile version even when I am at home.

Only if you're running the site on a toaster with a telegraph line plugged into the back.